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Feb 1, 2020

Figures, Flowers And Fire - South Pasadena Review

My most favorite paintings growing up were figurative. I loved Toulouse-Lautrec, Egon Schiele, John Singer Sargent and Manet.” Sobieski presented her work to the Sarah Bane Gallery in Fullerton, quit her job and showed for the next 10 years at the gallery, where she sold more than 100 of her paintings. She remained there until 2009, then returned to school to earn an MFA in painting from Claremont Graduate University. “After that, my work shifted into being curated for group shows,” Sobieski said. “I worked with different curators and was in multiple shows, and that’s what I’ve been doing up to this point.” Sobieski’s paintings depict a variety of subject matter, ranging from figures and animals to elements of nature. Her work uses lush oils on linen canvas to explore the formal elements of painting, with sincere imagery that speaks to the notions of beauty, abundance and loss. “In 2005 I began a series of flower paintings to change up my practice,” Sobieski said. “Much of my concentration had been tied to trying to grasp the human physical form, and I wanted to freely explore more of the formal elements of paint. I played with composition, color and paint surface. I used flowers because they are a forgiving structure to render and are also loaded with content.” “Debutante,” oil on paper, 2003. Another subjects Sobieski enjoys portraying is fire, which has played a significant role in her life. When she was 17, her childhood home in Pasadena burned down due to an electrical blaze. Sobieski’s two sons, James, 22, and Ollie, 20, work as emergency medical technicians, and her latest project, commissioned by the L.A. County Department of Arts and Culture, involved designing windows for a new fire station in Santa Clarita. “It was very serendipitous when they approached me for the project, because I’d had some fire paintings in my MFA show for graduate school,” Sobieski said. “I really enjoyed doing the collaboration, and I felt like I had a lot of kinship with the project. The thing I loved about this project was the purpose and the positive impact it has on the community. I feel like the project picked me.” For the Santa Clarita fire-station project, Sobieski enlisted fellow ArtCenter graduate Tim Carey and Judson Studios in South Pasadena, who fabricated windows featuring Sobieski’s colorful images that capture the tradition and reflect the life of a firefighter. In the near future, there will be a dedication ceremony that honors the firefighters and unveils the windows to the community. Sobieski also is working on a related coloring book for kids that will be given out at the dedication. Her May 17 solo show at Plan:d Gallery in Frogtown will combine her two main bodies of work — figurative paintings and florals — with the possibility of some glasswork as well. “I like painting flowers because they’re so forgiving,” Sobieski pointed out. “It’s not like drawing people, where you can instantly tell if something is off. With petals, you can twist and manipulate the elements without it look...

Mar 23, 2017

Funeral notices for Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Lewiston, ME 04240. Arrangements are under the care of Crosman Funeral Home, Cremation and Monument Services, 40 Main St., Lisbon Falls, 353-4951.SARGENT — Joanne R., 89, of Fryeburg died Saturday, March 18. A celebration of her life will be held Sunday, April 9, at 2 p.m. at the First Congregational Church of Fryeburg, UCC, 655 Main St., Fryeburg, ME 04037. Interment will be at a later date at the Fryeburg Pine Grove Cemetery. Gifts may be given in her memory to the church or Harvest Hills Animal Shelter, 1389 Bridgton Road, Fryeburg, ME 04037. Arrangements are in the care of the Wood Funeral Home, 9 Warren St., Fryeburg.SHORETTE — Lenorma B., 86, of Lisbon Falls died Monday, March 20. A memorial service will be held at Crosman Funeral Home on Saturday, April 29, at... (Lewiston Sun Journal)

Mar 23, 2017

Funeral notices for Wednesday, March 22, 2017 | Sun Journal

Lewiston, ME 04240. Arrangements are under the care of Crosman Funeral Home, Cremation and Monument Services, 40 Main St., Lisbon Falls, 353-4951.SARGENT — Joanne R., 89, of Fryeburg died Saturday, March 18. A celebration of her life will be held Sunday, April 9, at 2 p.m. at the First Congregational Church of Fryeburg, UCC, 655 Main St., Fryeburg, ME 04037. Interment will be at a later date at the Fryeburg Pine Grove Cemetery. Gifts may be given in her memory to the church or Harvest Hills Animal Shelter, 1389 Bridgton Road, Fryeburg, ME 04037. Arrangements are in the care of the Wood Funeral Home, 9 Warren St., Fryeburg.SHORETTE — Lenorma B., 86, of Lisbon Falls died Monday, March 20. A memorial service will be held at Crosman Funeral Home on Saturday, April 29, at... (Lewiston Sun Journal)

Jul 5, 2016

Exhibit displays Impressionist work, flowers

May 14, 2017. Artists featured in the New York Botanical Garden’s Rotunda gallery include William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent among others. Some of them gardened, and all were known for their skill at painting outdoors and for bold, painterly brushstrokes. “The positive reception of Impressionism in the United States coincided with a burgeoning garden culture, and these interpretations of well-tended residential gardens resonated with American ideas of the good life,” said guest curator Linda S. Ferber, a senior art historian at the New-York Historical Society. The paintings are easy on the eyes, she said: “Americans have always had a sweet spot for landscape, which carries many messages about national and cultural identity. Here, we can see how deeply enmeshed in the American psyche gardening was.” Impressionism was considered edgy in its day, which was the same era when the New York Botanical Garden, now celebrating its 125th anniversary, was founded, along with some of the East Coast’s most famous parks, museums and gardens. The paintings, gardens and optimistic, public-minded spirit of the time are captured in two books published to coincide with the show: “Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas” (New York Botanical Garden, 2016), about the featured painters and paintings; and “The New York Botanical Garden” (Abrams, 2016), about the garden’s history. Preparing for the show involved training a dizzying array of flowers to bloom all at once for maximum impact. That took much of the past three years, numerous greenhouses and the garden’s enormous team of experts, who grew and trained around 50,000 plants for the exhibit. “In real life, you would never see all these flowers blooming at the same time. It’s a living work of art, an ideal garden in perpetuity. So don’t try this at home,” said Todd A. Forrest, the garden’s vice president for horticulture and living collections. “And many are flowering off-season, so don’t expect to see them in the shop.” Once a week, whole sections of the garden are replaced, if needed, so the display continues to looks perfect. “The result is that if you squint, you should be able to see a living Impressionist garden,” Forrest said. To put the grandmother’s garden in context, much of the exhibit is nestled around a model porch, the type of architecture often included in the backdrop of American Impressionist paintings. “We invented an Impressionist garden... (South Bend Tribune)

Jul 5, 2016

Funeral notices for Thursday, June 30, 2016

ANGAN — Thomas M., 72, of Lisbon passed away Monday, June 27. A graveside service will be held July 1, at 2 p.m., at Mount Hope Cemetery in Lewiston. SARGENT — Kelly J., 53, of Tuftonboro, N.H., passed away Sunday, June 26. Relatives and friends are invited to a memorial visitation being held on Friday, July 29, from 5 to 7 p.m., at Wiles Remembrance Center, 137 Farmington Falls Road, Farmington. A memorial service will be held at the Center on Saturday, July 30, at 11 a.m. Interment will be private. Immediately following the service, all are welcome to a celebration of Kelly’s life from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m., at the Young’s family Camp, 57 Camp Road, Wilton. In lieu of flowers, donations in Kelly’s name may be made to The Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation, 8330 Ward Parkway, Ste. 510, Kansas City, MO, 64114, or National Pancreatic Cancer Foundation (NPCF), P.O. Box 1848, Longmont, CO 80502. SWEARINGEN — Lily M., 17, of Auburn died Tuesday, June 21. A memorial gathering will be held Saturday, July 2, from 6 to 8 p.m., at The Fortin Group Plummer & Merrill Funeral Home, Cremation and Monument Services, 217 Turner St., Auburn. RIVARD — Normand J., 78, of Lewiston died Tuesday, June 28. Visitation will be held at Fortin/Auburn Friday, July 1, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Funeral will follow at 1 p.m. at the funeral home. Committal will be held at St. Peter’s Cemetery. A service of The Fortin Group/Plummer & Merrill Funeral Home, Cremation & Monument Services, 217 Turner St., Auburn, 783-8545. (Lewiston Sun Journal)

Apr 22, 2016

The time Prince gave a free concert at a college for deaf students

The Washington Post’s story about his remarkable concert on campus.  [Prince, mysterious, inventive pop-music chameleon, dies at 57] By Edward D. SargentNovember 30, 1984 In a surprise, free performance at Gallaudet College, Prince, the rock star, dazzled and thrilled about 2,500 handicapped students from the campus and the city’s public schools yesterday afternoon. There were blind students who could not see him. There were deaf students who could only feel the vibrations of the songs that have made Prince one of the country’s most popular performers. But none of that seemed to matter. As Prince performed, often smiling and grinning as he played, hundreds of students raised their hands with thumbs, index and baby fingers extended and the two middle ones curved inward to tell him in sign language, “I love you.” For Prince, the controversial performer whose risque “Purple Rain” tour has sold out a record seven concerts at the Capital Centre, the show was a bit toned down, apparently for the young “special” audience. (Courtesy of Gallaudet University Archives) Promoters said Prince requested to do the show for handicapped students who would not otherwise be able to see or hear him perform. It was his second charitable appearance this week. On Tuesday night he was the featured guest at a reception held to raise money for maverick Chicago educator Marva Collins and Big Brothers of America, which has more than 1,000 black males in D.C. waiting to be matched with role models, spokesmen said. Prince wore a psychedelic crushed velvet Edwardian suit. Later, he threw his white glove, and some of his jewelry into the crowd. Members of his back-...